Gate



July 29. 1924.

152,3? w. .1. BRIGNER GATE Filed Feb. 8, 192?.

ginucnl'ot Patented July 29, 1924.

UNITED STATES WESLEY J. BRIGNER, or ammo, NORTH DAKOTA.

GATE.

Application filed February 8, 1922. Serial No. 534,920.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that \VESLEY J. BRIGNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Grano, in the county of Renville and State of North Dakota, has invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gates, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to certain new and useful improvements in a gate and has for its primary object the provision of a gate which will be braced and raised in the center, of simple and improved construction, and strong and durable in use.

The invention has for another object the provision of a gate of the character stated which will be composed of the minimum number of parts, especially adapted for use in railway stock yards and in which the gate will be constructed so as to reduce to the minimum, liability of sagging of the gate.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of cooperating elements hereinafter more specifically set forth, claimed and shown in the accompanying drawing forming a part of the present application and in which The figure is a side elevation of the preferred form of the gate.

Referring more in detail to the drawing in which similar reference characters designate corresponding parts throughout the sev-. eral views, 1 indicates the bottom frame member, 2 the end frame members and 3 the upstanding central frame member of the gate. The central frame member 3 is considerably taller than the end frame members 2, the purpose of which will presently appear.

In the preferred form, the frame members 1. 2 and 3 are formed of metal tubing or rods and connecting corner members 4 serve to connect the end frame members 2 with the outer ends of the bottom frame member 1. Similar connecting corner members 4 are carried at the upper ends of the end frame members 2, and the short inwardly directed top frame members 5 are carried by the upper connecting corner members, as shown in Figure 1. The bottom frame member may be formed in sections, connected by the central T-connection 6, within which is supported the lower end of the upstanding central frame member 3. Mounted on the inner end of each short inwardly directed top frame member 5, is a Y-connection 7, from thearms of which eX-. tend the inclined upper central frame members 8. These frame members 8 have their inner ends secured in'arms of the cr0ss-connections 9 carried on the upstanding central frame member 3, above and below the short inwardly directed top frame members 5, thereby forming substantially an auxiliary diamond shaped upper central frame within the main rectangular frame and considerably increasing the strength of the gate as well as increasing the height of the central part thereof. Any suitable ornamental member 10 may be mounted on the upper extremity of the upstanding central frame member 3, as shown in the drawing.

The gate structure is completed by extending crossed wire strands 11 over the spaces between the frame members 2 and 3 and also between the frame members 1 and 5 and the lower frame members 8, as illustrated in the drawing.

7 It is believed the complete construction and advantages of the gate may now be apparent to parties familiar with this art, from the foregoing paragraphs taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, without further detailed description.

While the preferred embodiments of the invention have been shown and described, it is to be understood that minor changes in the details of construction and arrangement of parts may be resorted to within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

What is claimed is:

A gate structure comprising a main frame including upper and lower horizontal sections, each section comprising a pair of tubular members, vertical sections at the outer ends of said upper and lower horizontal sections, the tubular members forming the lower section being connected at their inner opposed ends by a T shaped coupling, an auxiliary frame substantially diamondshaped supported at one pair of diametrically opposed apices thereof on the inner opposed ends of the tubular members forming the upper horizontal section, and a central bracing member supported at its lower end in said T shaped coupling and extending vertically through the upper and lower apices of said auxiliary frame.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

W SLEY J. BRIGNER. 

